Act like a spoiled child

An hour later, Ming Shen was sitting in the bedroom eating melon seeds.

The old eunuch reminded him: "Ah Shen, you just lost the melon seeds."

Mingshen suddenly withdrew his hand, only to realize that he had been chewing on the melon seeds for a long time, so he quickly found tea and spit it out together.After rinsing his mouth, without thinking about it, he put it away and threw away the teacup.The bone china teacup rolled onto the soft carpet, Ming Shen didn't notice it.

The old eunuch: "..."

Mingshen did not stay in the Changning Palace where Yumin usually read memorials and met foreign ministers, but returned to the side hall where they lived in the past, which was far away, about half the palace across.

He has been in a daze for an entire hour.

When Yumin kissed in the morning, the scorching and domineering breath almost made him unable to press his lips, and wanted to open his mouth to breathe. Before the tip of their tongues touched each other, Yumin got up and left, walking quickly. Leaving, only waved his back to him.

And he was directly petrified under everyone's gaze.

He has never even touched a girl's hand in his life, and no matter how wild he is, he will go to the kiln with his wheelchair-bound brother to drink flower wine and watch dancers dance. He does not want the first kiss in his life to be done with his monarch up.

He quickly married his own monarch, and quickly let many people know about it, throwing his face to the end without even a room for detours.

What the hell is this fucking thing about?

"Come back to your senses, Shen, I sent someone to notify His Majesty, and His Majesty agreed with you to move in. I went to pick the best plaque and come here. You come to inscribe it. There must be a name here."

The old eunuch cheerfully handed him a pen, asking him to write the name of the palace on it, and persuaded him earnestly: "Ah Shen, you don't need to do this, the result of the test at the Sheji Altar is like this, you can't accept it, Your Majesty couldn't accept it at the beginning, but it was all for the sake of the country. Our Majesty won't eat you, it's just a marriage, can we have less meat?"

Mingshen lowered his head and said nothing, he took the brush, and asked after a while: "What character?"

He looked at the empty plaque, thought for a while, and remembered that when he was a child, he didn't know the heights of the sky and the earth, so he named this place the Immortal Residence of the Lingxiao Palace, and played the court game with Yumin. He couldn't help smiling, and his nervousness eased a little.

"Your Majesty drew up the word 'Jian Yin'. Ah Shen, what do you think?" The old eunuch brought a silver plate with these two words written on red paper, with flying and flying phoenixes.

"Seeing the Yin Palace? It sounds a bit strange." Ming Shen was about to lean over to look, when suddenly he heard the old eunuch shout loudly like a bell: "Ming Shen accepts the order——"

He was so startled that the pen in his hand almost flew out, so he could only kneel down subconsciously and kowtow to accept the order.Then I heard the old eunuch say: "The emperor said: The only son of the Ming family, who has blessed me for several years, has worked hard and made great achievements. His nature is righteous, his conduct is good, he is suitable for writing and martial arts, and the four directions are the principles of the four directions. [1]. Zit gifted Er: Yushitai Supervision."

It was Yumin who told him to go to Yushitai.Ming Shen said: "The minister receives the decree."

The old eunuch said: "No hurry, I haven't finished reading yet." He continued to sing, and read leisurely: "I also know that Aiqing lost his father when he was a young man, and his surname is incomplete. Give Qing the word 'Jianyin' as a sign, and give him Qing does not have the right to kneel and salute, so I respect it."

Ming Shen: "..."

Living in Jianyin Temple, Yumin's brain circuit is still so simple and rude.

The old eunuch nodded and said: "Ah Shen, get up, His Majesty mentioned this matter the other day and said that there must be a sign, so I thought of such a word for you."

Mingshen got up, took the imperial decree and put it away, he wanted to throw it into the charcoal basin habitually, but this time he didn't dare.

"If you see Yin, you will see Yin. Anyway, this side hall is as secret as if you can't see it. Not even a ghost has come here for more than ten years." Ming Shen said, leaning over and inscribed the words on it, "I live here , just as invisible.”

Yumin didn't come over until evening.

When he came, Mingshen had already finished his dinner and was buried in writing on the desk.Seeing him enter the door, Mingshen jumped up like a rabbit and bowed to him: "I pay my respects to Your Majesty."

Yumin pulled him up: "The queen is dead. You don't need to do this big gift again when you see me."

He would discuss matters with his biological father's Minister Gu Ming during the day, and he didn't even have time to eat, and the servants began to bring up vegetables to serve him.And Mingshen had already eaten, Yumin sat on the side, when he was about to say something, he stopped again, and just looked at him quietly like that.Mingshen buried his head in arranging the books, with a twist of disobedient hair on the top of his head. From Yumin's angle, he could see his upturned nose and soft rosy lips, with a bit of mild winter wind and cold, a little sweet.

After tinkering for a long time, Ming Shen finally found an old book, pointed to the words on it and read it carefully: "The Taizu established a male queen, and the officials remonstrated with him...but the Taizu said, 'I have a stone in my heart, so I can't do it. Zhuan Ye', discussing the country's foundation, appointing the third son as the reserve, withdrawing from the harem, and worrying the court..."

Before he finished reading, Yumin suddenly said coldly: "Ming Shen accepts the order."

Mingshen had already formed a conditioned reflex, and quickly got ready to kneel obediently, when a book in his hand fell down with an earth-shattering clang.As a result, Yumin pressed his shoulders across a table and did not let him move, just looked into his eyes like that, but did not speak for a long time.

Ming Shen: "?"

Yumin said calmly: "It's nothing, I just want to scare you. What do you want to say?"

Ming Shen: "..."

He picked up the book and glanced at Yumin: "The great ancestor married a male queen and was scolded all his life. That queen also died young because of this, the great ancestor..."

"Say something sweet." Yu Min interrupted him again.

Mingshen didn't have the courage to speak up.He went to the desk to fetch the regulations that he had pondered all afternoon, pushed them along the edge of the desk with restraint and anticipation, and handed them to Yumin.

He explained: "This is something I came up with. Since it is a divine marriage and Chongxi, on the surface I am your imperial doctor, but secretly I am the queen in name. It is not good for you if this relationship is broken. In the short term, maybe you can consider preparing a substitute for me just in case, my brother is good at making human skin masks, and he doesn’t have anything left at home, but he still has some knowledge of these skills, I think maybe..."

"No need, crooked ways." Yumin said, "Also, Shen, you made a mistake. We can hide the marriage from outsiders, but we can't hide it from the gods. You are destined to be my queen in this life. There will only be one queen, you, this is no joke."

Ming Shen was stunned.

Yumin went on to say: "As for how to hide it from the gods, you can think about it yourself. When you figure it out, you can tell me at that time... What are you doing covering your butt?"

Mingshen dejectedly said: "That is to say, if I want to be your queen, I will also sing with you sincerely and raise my eyebrows, so that the gods may be satisfied, is that so? But Brother Min, why do I remember that you don't believe me?" These, you took me to smash the Bodhisattva statue when I was young."

Yumin crossed her fingers together, put her chin on it, and said calmly, "Sincere sincerity leads to spirituality. I used to be superficial. After contacting, we know how important the guidance of the gods is. Shen, you will also It is also one of the Queen's duties to go with me to pay homage to the ancestors, offer incense and enlightenment."

Yumin actually began to believe in God?

Mingshen felt that he had been hit by a third bolt from the blue.

He opened his mouth wide and didn't know what to say after a long time, so he tentatively said, "Ah, Amitabha?"

Yumin was also taken aback for a moment, then he thought for a while, and said, "Wu... Wuliang Tianzun?"

Mingzun suddenly realized, and patted his head: "I thought you converted to Buddhism, but it turned out to be Taoism. Brother Min, you didn't say it earlier."

At night, a few hundred feet away from the newly named Jianyin Palace, a fire was burning.

It was a rainy night, and the light wind and drizzle could not stop the fierce burning fire. It was hunting in the cold palace, leaving only an old man crying in desolation and panic: "Why is he burning Buddha! He is such a blasphemer! I will suffer retribution! Please give me some thought, I..."

The old man's face was flushed and glowing, and suddenly he remembered the past, hissed: "I am the emperor! I am, how dare you act wildly in front of me, how dare you!"

No one paid any attention to him.

Only an official in Chinese clothes under the high wall moved, looked at his distressed appearance, and smiled contemptuously: "You poisoned the emperor to death, violated your brother's will, and sent his only son I should have thought about it when I was dismissed and sent to the cold palace. Back then, I saw something wrong with that child's eyes, but now he is really a wolf. What kind of gods are you talking about with people who only know animal nature, my overlord?"

Seeing him, the old man rushed over as if seeing a savior, begging him half madly and half pitifully, "Help me! Save me! He'll kill me, no——he'll torture me, put me I tortured to death! This man Yumin can do such a thing! He is a lunatic!"

The official took a half step back, with regret in his old voice: "The Supreme Emperor, I just came to monitor this matter, I don't know what His Majesty is thinking, suddenly said that all the Buddha statues in the palace will be replaced with the statues of Infinite Heaven; Probably His Majesty wanted me to see the fate of those who threatened him, and to make an example to others."

He laughed in a low voice: "Kill you chicken——to scare me, monkey."

"I don't want to come either, but what can I do? Your Majesty asked Bu Yu to accompany him to meet the old officials today, and drove us all out. He said that he had a deep affection as a companion, and he didn't see that he was surnamed Ming. He is so good. He is really... afraid of us, so afraid of us!"

The official laughed easily, and looked up at the sky. The night was dark, and it was slightly reddish by the scorching fire. The dark color seemed to slowly permeate after being heated by condensed and dried blood.

"Speaking of the man named Ming... Your Majesty seems to be hiding something from everyone recently... I heard that he renovated the cold palace and invited the only son of the Ming family into the palace. From my point of view, he probably wants to marry Princess Zhao'an Marry her and support the Ming family." The official said to himself.

At this time, a man who looked like a follower ran over in the rain and whispered a few words in his ear.

"Cizi Jianyin? He really said that?" The man with half-white hair and beard suddenly froze, stroking his beard thoughtfully, "Jianyin? Interesting, really interesting."

"Ah Shen, have you ever hidden anything?"

In the middle of the night, Yumin didn't leave, so Mingshen squeezed into the same bed with him, and slept next to the half-broken pillar like before.It's just that this situation is not what it used to be. She wrapped the quilt cautiously, wrapped herself into a ball, and focused on protecting her buttocks.

He didn't expect Yumin to spend the night here, but Yumin didn't say anything, and his attitude was very natural, as if it was a matter of course.He couldn't say anything more.The bed was wide, he and Yumin were on one side, and the middle was wide enough to cross a river.

Yumin obviously also noticed his restraint, so he started to tell him some things about his childhood, and the atmosphere gradually slowed down.

Mingshen thought for a while: "I used to hide a little hedgehog behind your and Grandpa Cheng's backs, because it was too cute and I didn't want it to be roasted and eaten. But the day after I hid it behind the tree, it was frozen. It was dead, but Grandpa Cheng found it in the end, picked it up and made hedgehog soup."

He was a little sad: "I didn't have time to bury it, and you scolded me for not eating meat that day."

At that time, life was poor, and wild vegetables were eaten all year round. He and Yumin were used to picking a few grass leaves and sucking them. Occasionally, they could exchange money for a small fish, which was a great blessing.

He is sensible, of course, there is no reason to raise such a cute little hedgehog, so he can't do much, but occasionally he will laugh and sigh when he thinks about it.He turned over and was soon attracted by another thing: "Brother Min, the sky outside is so red, isn't it raining tonight?"

Yumin got up and blew out the candles, then closed the window again: "Go to sleep. It's a good omen."

Mingshen suddenly found that Yumin's speech became a bit of a stick, could it be true that he began to believe in religion?

He glanced at Yumin, and Yumin gave him a cold glance, so frightened that Mingshen quickly closed his eyes, and buried half of his face in the quilt.

The long night was silent, Mingshen soon fell asleep.

In the darkness, Yumin still kept his eyes open, their eyes shining brightly.

The fierce quarrel that took place in the Changning Palace in the afternoon was as if before my eyes——

Before his biological father's death, the Minister of Gu Ming, an old man who had retired to the countryside for a long time, asked him with trembling hands: "Male queen? Your Majesty, you... If the holy grandfather has a spirit in the sky, he will blame me for not being able to do so." Can lead you to the right path!"

Yu Min said calmly: "Father has gone to Jiuquan now, and he has no time to criticize me. If he hadn't been cowardly and incompetent, and was deceived by his brothers, he would not have abdicated in the prime of life to let the virtuous and do what he called' Give up the emperor'. Some things, once you give up, you lose everything."

The veteran was stunned: "You—"

Yumin looked at him calmly: "I didn't ask you to come here to accuse me of absurdity. I just came to tell you about this, to thank Shen and myself for the kindness of helping me back then. Father, go Of the previous four Gu Ming ministers, you are the only one who still remembers the kindness of the old master. Based on this alone, I will give you whatever you want."

The old minister shook his head and said with a wry smile: "I am a man who has been half buried in the ground, what else can I want? I just remembered that in the past, the guards guarding the cold palace were bribed by the minister. You and Master Ming had a meal in the garden. A bowl of millet The rice is divided into two people to eat..."

It has nothing to do with monarchs and ministers, and has nothing to do with the future. When the old man stepped into the overgrown garden, what he saw was only mutual dependence and the only warmth left in the long-term solitude, like a golden marigold growing out of the darkness.Mingshen took a bite of rice, and Yumin also took a bite, no more, no less, to ensure the average.In the end, it was counted that Yumin ate 21 bites, and Mingshen ate [-] bites; the little guy thought he ate too little, so he had to pick some fruits for him, searched all over the backyard, climbed up and down, and found two. A sour green berry was handed to him.

At that time, a maid inquired behind Yumin's back and told him that there was a minister who liked to play with children, so she could sell Mingshen as a prostitute.With a cautious appearance, it can be sold for 1000 taels.

At that time, Yumin was not even the most humble weed in the eyes of others, let alone Shen.Others heard that there was a good-looking child in the Lenggong, so they searched everywhere.He hid Mingshen under the bed, and didn't tell him why, but he might crawl out for two days and one night, and beat the maid to death in front of Mingshen, the blood spattered on his fingertips, he wiped it vigorously. Go, wipe your fingertips white.

"Don't be afraid," he said.

Mingshen's small ball was trembling in his arms, but he was shaking more than him, he said hoarsely: "I want to hide you. I want others to never see you , only I can see you."

Mingshen has always been obedient to his words, this little fellow dug out his tattered little book, saw that he hadn't slept well all night, and when he woke up from a nightmare, he crawled over and told him, "Brother Min, I'm going to learn the invisibility technique." , okay? Don’t be sad, I’ll hide myself from now on, and I won’t show it to anyone, only you.”

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[1] Quoted from the imperial decree given by Bi Jian's father to Ge Shi, the mother of a scholar of Chengdelang Imperial Academy